You need at least one drive in your alms partition with a control path, but, that drive can (I think) also be in another alms partition. Just make sure it's only used actively in either PR or in Test at one time.
-- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 24821622 Op 9 jan. 2013, om 17:25 heeft Thomas Denier <thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org> het volgende geschreven: > I am in the process of setting up a test environment for our Version 6 > TSM servers. The servers run under zSeries Linux and are currently at > the 6.2.2.0 level. The main motivation for setting up a test environment > at this time is to support an upgrade in the near future. > > Our production environment uses a TS3500 tape library with the ALMS > feature. We will need tape infrastructure available to the test > environment for some tests, but we do not wish to have any tape drives > permanently attached to the test environment. Is it possible to have a > logical library remain in existence with tape volumes assigned but with > no tape drives assigned? > > Thomas Denier > Thomas Jefferson University
